Apache configuration

[chrisk]

Hello all,

I need to learn PHP and to that end I installed FC9 last Saturday on a dual boot machine.
My intranet is properly configured: I can browse Windows shares on the other machines on my network and I have read/write accessibility to the Linux box from the Windows boxes.

The default Apache installation works properly as well, I get the feather on both the local machine and on the other machines on the network.

My problem arises when I edit the httpd.conf file: I edited it from
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html" to read DocumentRoot "/home/chris/public/www" and changed
<Directory "/var/www/html"> to <Directory "/home/chris/public/www">

Firefox can't establish a connection with this configuration.

The question then: what do I need to do the have Apache serve up pages from the /home/chris/public/www folder?

TIA

Chris

[biggsk]

Check the permissions for "/home/chris/public/www"

[chrisk]

Thanks for your quick response, biggsk.

I should have stated also that I am a total new to Linux, so how do I check and change permissions on files/folders?

Chris

[biggsk]

chmod 755 /home/chris/public/www

Then restart apache

service httpd restart

[chrisk]

Thanks again biggsk, but this is what happened when I pasted your command into a terminal window:

[chris@webserver ~]$ su
Password:
[root@webserver chris]# chmod 755 /home/chris/public/www
chmod: cannot access `/home/chris/public/www': No such file or directory
[root@webserver chris]# exit
exit
[chris@webserver ~]$ chmod 755 /home/chris/public/www
chmod: cannot access `/home/chris/public/www': No such file or directory
[chris@webserver ~]$

Chris

[domg472]

less /var/log/httpd/error_log should show you any apache errors
you will also have issues with SELinux. those will be logged in /var/log/audit/audit.log
you can see man http_selinux for SELinux settings regarding apache
also apache must be able to access that location

Your setup is not a recommended one.

you could try something like this:

mkdir /www
/usr/sbin/semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/www(/.*)?"
/sbin/restorecon -R -v /www
chown -R chrisk:apache /www
chmod -R g+xs /www
cd /home/chrisk
ln -s /www www
and then edit the documentroot to point to /www

not sure if this will work or even recommended.

or you could just leave the system documentroot default and configure a userdir

apache.org has very good documentation.

[biggsk]

chrisk,
Does the /home/chris/public/www directory exist?

[chrisk]

Yes it does, and it is clearly accessible from my Windows box.

Chris

[biggsk]

cd to the /home/chris/public directory.
Then try

chmod 755 www

Also paste the output of:

ls -l /home/chris/public

[chrisk]

[chris@webserver ~]$ ls -l /home/chris/public
ls: cannot access /home/chris/public: No such file or directory
[chris@webserver ~]$ su
Password:
[root@webserver chris]# ls -l /home/chris/public
ls: cannot access /home/chris/public: No such file or directory
[root@webserver chris]#

[biggsk]

Ok.
It looks like /home/chris/public doesn't exist.
You will need to create the directories before you can chmod them.

In the /home/chris directory:

mkdir public
cd public

mkdir www

Then try chmod 755 /home/chris/public/www, and restarting apache.

[chrisk]

biggsk, it does exist, the view from my Windows box clearly shows that.

Chris

[EnglandA]

You are aware that Linux is case sensitive?

/home/chris/public/www
is not
/home/chris/Public/www

[biggsk]

Originally Posted by EnglandA

You are aware that Linux is case sensitive?

/home/chris/public/www
is not
/home/chris/Public/www

Thanks for pointing that out.

chrisk,

chmod 755 /home/chris/Public/www

Then restart apache.

[chrisk]

Thanks EnglandA,

I caught that a few minutes ago, so I redid the chmod 755 on the Public/www folder, edited the httpd.conf file, and rebooted, but the results are the same, Apache is still not serving up the index.html file in that folder.

Chris